Code reviewed by WIRED uncovered an unreleased face-recognition system embedded in Meta’s smart glasses platform. It’s designed to identify people via biometric data stored on users’ phones.
Archived version: https://archive.is/20260605004216/https://www.wired.com/story/meta-smart-glasses-face-recognition-nametag-connections/
Oh wow, fantastic. If you wear those in public, you deserve to be punched. That’s so unbelievably intrusive.
In other words they’re deploying code to the edge, in real time apps, that they’ve had since at least 2010 on the servers. Filling a database that they’ve ‘deleted’ before (trust us, bro) due to mass outrage and been successfully sued for multiple times. Like they say, if you’re rich enough (and a corporation so no one goes to jail) it’s not a crime, it’s a fine. Apparently this database is worth $2B in fines, surely they won’t use it for evil…
